Simple reason is I don't have a vinyl player. I wonder if, when I have enough disposable income to have this kind of hobby, I'd be better switching from collecting CDs to vinyl, since the former doesn't hold any real lasting value.

I can walk into charity shops and buy handfuls for pennies. That's if they're not in landfill already. Anyone seeing their music collection as an investment is an idiot, fashions change and so does perception of value. I'm not saying CDs will fare any better, they obviously won't, but the only real reasons for having a physical collection are for sentimental reasons and for showing it off.

I tend to use it with records that I particularly love and want to invest the time/money with, or with music that will sound particularly good. For me personally, it sort of helps me stop treating that music so disposably, which is how I think it's easy to see things with Spotify etc.

But no, it doesn't make you a bad music fan or whatever. Everyone has a different relationship to music. Just enjoy yours, whatever it is.

Like it was mandatory to have some records if you liked music a lot. Realised it was expensive, took up room, was more shit to lug around (I'm facing another ten years of house-sharing), and impractical. MP3 is better and unless you only listen to it on a minority of occasions, which you don't because you are alive in 2013, then it's just not something I see a point to.

mainly because when I buy CDs they just get ripped and chucked in a box now and having spent my student years as a rampant downloader I can't quite bring myself to pay for digital music. Spotify seems to be giving artists a pittance and I'd like to support the dudes whose music I love, so going full vinyl wanker seems to be a good way to do it.